# DEC Gaza appeal reaches £14 million after one month

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/09/08/dec-gaza-appeal-reaches-14m-one-month/
- Published: 2014-09-08T01:00:20+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

One month on from the launch by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) of its Gaza
Crisis Appeal, the total donated has reached £14m.

DEC Chief Executive Saleh Saeed said:

“We are hugely grateful to the UK public for their generosity in supporting people
affected by the crisis in Gaza.  Raising money to help those affected by conflict
is always challenging but for a family which has lost its home, their need is as
great whether the cause is an earthquake or a war.

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“Despite significant risks and obstacles our member agencies and their partners 
have done an amazing job delivering aid to hundreds of thousands of people whose
lives have been torn apart”.

DEC member charities and their partners have reached 1.1 million people in the past
month.

The DEC Gaza Crisis Appeal launched on 8 August with all major UK broadcasters carrying
appeals on radio and television.  The appeal began during the first of a series 
of ceasefires which started to come into force after a month of conflict.

## Other DEC appeals

Here is a comparison with other recent DEC appeal totals. Note that the figure for
the 2014 Gaza Crisis appeal is for the first month only, and that the Syria 2013
appeal is still ongoing.

 

[⌊DEC appeal totals (£m) at September 8 2014⌉⌊DEC appeal totals (£m) at September
8 2014⌉[

DEC appeal totals (£m) at September 8 2014

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